Exam

Remarks: The exam is in written form. The date corresponds also to the proof of achievements (Leistungsnachweise) in written form.

Resources: The exam is held with open books excluding programmable pocket calculators and communication devices.

Please note: Please bring along your student ID (BlueCard)!

Inspection:

Friday, September 1st, 201702:00pm - 03:00pmSeminar room 4G at IKS

This lecture is part of the master program Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering in the following majors: Communications Engineering

Contents

This one-semester course is part of the Master Programme Communications Engineering at RWTH. The lecture Forward Error Correction and Digital Modulation addresses the aspects of channel coding and digital modulation in modern communication systems. The first part of the lecture covers different standard techniques of channel coding for error correction and error detection

Linear Block Codes

Cyclic Codes

Convolutional Codes and their decoding

Turbo Codes

In the second part the lecture deals the baseband and the bandpass transmission

Digital Modulation

Intersymbol Interference

Matched Filter

Furthermore, applications are discussed such as

GSM (cyclic codes, convolutional codes)

UMTS (Turbo codes)

Evaluation

The results of the evaluation of the last years are summarized below.

Summer term 2016

Participants of the evaluation: 8

Lecture:Global grade: 1.5Concept of the lecture: 1.3Instruction and behavior: 1.7

Exercise:Global grade: 1.4Concept of the exercise: 1.5Instruction and behavior: 1.4